F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography

The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were
aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald,
and alcohol.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,
Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. His father, Edward, was
from Maryland, and his mother, Mary McQuillan, was the
daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a
grocer in St. Paul. Both were from Catholic families.
Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker
furniture in St. Paul, and he became

father by mail, attempting
to have a watch over Scottie’s education and to develop her
social values.
During his trip to California, he fell in love with a
movie columnist named Sheilah Graham. He began his Hollywood
novel, “The Love of the Last Tycoon”, in 1939 and had
written more than half of it, when he died of a heart attack
on December 21, 1940. Eight years later, Zelda Fitzgerald
died in a fire in Highland Hospital.